a holiday home embedded in the Slope A new holiday home designed by Office Inainn occupies a steep fjord landscape of Valldal, Norway. The 127-square-meter house is situated high above the waterline and built without leveling the terrain, allowing its form to emerge through close observation of the site. The project’s approach is…
Arquitectura-G embeds blue concrete core in Portuguese house In Sintra, Portugal, Arquitectura-G completes House II, the latest intervention within a long-abandoned quinta de recreio, a rural estate historically devoted to agriculture and leisure. The project forms part of an ongoing sequence of works by the studio’s team, which seeks to conserve and rehabilitate the…
Season 1 of Ironheart has started airing on Disney+. Let us know your thoughts as the season progresses in the comments below and vote in the poll. NOTE: People will be posting their thoughts/reactions to the season as a whole, so there will be spoilers in the comments. We advise you not to read the…
Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house opens for sale in Mississippi A rare opportunity to inhabit a piece of American architectural history arrives with the listing of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fountainhead residence in Jackson, Mississippi. Priced at €2.13 million ($2.5 million), the three-bedroom home is one of the few Usonian houses ever built and the only…
What do the largest Picasso painting in the world, punky Vivienne Westwood apparel, pins for securing a 17th-century ruff, and a complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior have in common? That’ll be the U.K.’s Victoria and Albert Museum, or the V&A, the world’s largest collection of design and applied and decorative arts. In South Kensington, the…
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Participatory Design revives Community Park in Neiva Community Park Veinte de Mayo, designed by Taller Ciudad Portátil, is located in the Veinte de Mayo neighborhood in Neiva, Colombia. The project occupies a 94 sqm triangular plot that had previously been abandoned and associated with insecurity and neglect. Through a process of participatory design and…
A quote widely attributed to Tom Robbins says, “At the typewriter you find out who you are.” Or in the case of one unique machine that’s been missing for decades, the same could be said for finding one, too. In January, Jennifer Felix and her husband Nelson were sorting through items in Jennifer’s grandfather’s basement…
Completed in 1940, California Highway 17—now Interstate 880—bulldozed a vast swath of Oakland’s African American community to make room for the route. Cut off from downtown, these neighborhoods were stripped of their economic connections to the commercial center, disrupting social cohesion and among other policies and attitudes at the time, setting in motion an era…